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Subject: Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
Date: 30 Sep 2024 19:32:56 GMT
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John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:
>This bears repeating. As someone whose initial exposure to OOP concepts
>was via C++ (and then Java,) I spent *years* never understanding what
>the appeal was. Wasn't until I encountered Smalltalk, way on down the
>line, that I finally *got* it.

  Can you explain what the that appeal was?